City Lights Booksonixsuitesupport@onixsuite.com20161210T0258ZengCOM.ONIXSUITE.97808728615270301City Lights Books02087286152X03978087286152715978087286152700BC08454gr0816oz0101TheBurroughs File1A0101Onixsuite Contributor ID6098William S. BurroughsBurroughs, William S.William S.Burroughs<p>William Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely reconized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: <em>Junky</em>, <em>Naked Lunch</em>, <em>The Soft Machine</em>, and <em>Cities of the Red Night</em>.</p>01eng002240324Internet CL HierarchyBeat Generation24Internet CL HierarchyEssays0300<P>Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of <em>Naked Lunch</em> and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his ""insurrectionary sense of America's underside," as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.</p>
<P>Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.</p>0200Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot...0600"...his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror."Playboy0600"Burroughs may be our only writer whose socio-political apacalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric."Kirkus Reviews0600"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift."Jack Kerouac040003066098Onixsuite Contributor ID0201D501http://www.citylights.com/resources/persons/6098.gifCity Lights Publishers01City Lights Publishers04011984020111198402010201GCOI87286100986640WORLD000307631-760XConsortium Book Sales & Distribution612/746-2600612/746-2606info@cbsd.com33www.cbsd.comhttp://www.cbsd.com200115.95USD